Current codes requirements are now requiring the design of proper air barriers within the building enclosure. Along with these new design standards are the requirements to conduct a building ...

Nathan Culley, TBE, CxA, Penn Air Control, Inc. An airtight building envelope is one of the most important contributors to an efficient, comfortable, durable and healthy building. In addition to ...

Building enclosure commissioning—BECx—is intended to assure building quality by establishing an explicit process to verify that a building enclosure is designed and constructed to meet the owner’s ...

Constructing contemporary building enclosures while avoiding installation problems during construction and performance problems in service is an unrelenting challenge ...